NHS England recently proposed changes to the NHS provider license, with the draft consultation including a digital baseline maturity requirement among the conditions that healthcare providers must meet. The consultation period for the draft has now closed, but here HTN take a closer look at the role of digital within […]
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HTN Digital Primary Care: Dr Osman Bhatti on patient access to online GP records
At HTN Now: Digital Primary Care, we welcomed Dr Osman Bhatti, GP and Chief Clinical Information Officer at North-East London ICB. Osman joined us to discuss the debate around patient access to online GP records, with focus on what is happening, how practices should prepare, and how his own ICB […]
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear creates Application Support Hub to assist diversity in recruitment
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW) has developed a new online Application Support Hub, with the aim of supporting candidates from a diverse range of backgrounds through their recruitment process. An internal report found that white applicants are more likely to be appointed than candidates from ethnic […]
Virtual ward focus in DHSC’s new delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency services
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has shared a new plan which will see the NHS expand services aiming to keep the vulnerable out of hospital. ‘Delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency services’ states an ambition to help patients to be seen more quickly in emergency departments, […]
Hertfordshire and West Essex ICS digital strategy in focus
Hertfordshire and West Essex ICS’s digital strategy is available in text and video format, covering their visions, goals, digital strategy mission and actions for the future. The strategy opens with a comment from Dr Jane Haplin, CEO and SRO For Digital Transformation Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB. Dr Haplin highlights the […]
East Suffolk and North Essex launches robotic knee surgery app
Patients undergoing robotic knee surgery at Colchester Hospital, part of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, are now being offered additional support through a specialist phone app. Medical technology company Smith+Nephew partnered with digital health experts Huma in order to create the app, with the aim of tailoring […]
Government publishes draft guidance on NHS protection of patient data
The Department of Health and Social Care has published draft statutory guidance for NHS England with regards to how it should exercise statutory functions intended for transfer from NHS Digital. The draft regulations, named ‘Health and Social Care Information Centre (Transfer of Functions, Abolition and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023’, have […]
Interview: HART paramedic Steven Thompson on developing a virtual reality simulation for mass casualty triage training
For our latest interview we spoke to HART paramedic Steven Thompson about his work co-developing and testing a virtual reality simulation for mass casualty triage. Following an MSc in Emergency Medicine and Resuscitation, Steven started the project with the aim of improving training and increasing confidence in the Hazard Area […]
Interview: Michael Abtar and Dr Bright Mawudor on embedding security into solutions by design and adhering to standards
For the second of our two features focusing on data and cyber security, we spoke to Michael Abtar and Dr Bright Mawudor from IG Smart. Michael and Bright discussed the key data and cyber security threats facing healthcare in 2023; embedding security into solutions by design; the importance of adhering […]
Featured interview: Open Medical’s Harry Lykostratis on cyber and data security
For our January focus on cyber and data security, we were joined by Harry Lykostratis. Harry is Managing Director, Lead Engineer and Founder of Open Medical, as well as a practising orthopaedic surgeon. On his background and current role As well as founding Open Medical and my role as the […]
